What’s Your opinion?

This only reinforces my view that the building industry in this town is basically the glorified mafia, with a few cashed up ute driving bogans thrown in.

Sadly, the ACT government only encourages them by creating huge demand for their services (all the big road and construction projects, as well as land releases which, on a per capita basis, far exceed anything in other Australian capital cities), meaning they can charge just about anything, take their sweet time building anything because they promise more than they can deliver, and flout the law if they feel like it. And they know that lobby groups like HIA and Property Council will protect them, and the govt will listen to these ahead of common sense or the public.

I actually think if the govt staggered its construction projects a bit more, and pulled back on the land releases and associated infrastructure, this would actually have the effect of reducing the cost of construction (inc of new houses), while also making builders more well behaved as they’d be forced to compete for contracts. Alternatively they could just get the police to crack down on these hoodlums. End or rant.

Had some illegally dumped stuff cleared up really fast one time. Outside the gate to our horse paddock was a regular dump spot.
A few years ago someone had dropped off three large garbage bags. Couple of riders decided to check if the dumpee had left any incriminating identification.
End result was we got the police to remove it same day.
Three full bags of marijuana.

Testing out the Gov 2.0 commitment, I tweeted @ESDD_Comms, and have had this reply:

Thanks @GungahlinCC. EPA is onto it and it has also been referred to TAMS.

Al, the large site in the first photo has been “handled”. They simply fenced the area and put signs up declaring that illegal dumping is, well, illegal. If I could find the job number they gave me, I’d pass it on.

Should be enough info on there to call up and cancel his dole… Or at least report that he has begun a long term relationship with a man named Dave who makes $200k per year (that will seriously reduce his payment, and be damned funny when he tries to sort it out). 🙂

This junk is about 5-7m from the front door of somebody’s house!
That bag with dolebludger’s letter-steal his identity!!
Or, at least, call Canberra Connect and report it, rubbish will lead them to the address.:)

I hadn’t noticed any dumping going on in that area, then, as soon as a fence and the sign went up, it was on.

I reported illegal dumping earlier this year, by the time they did anything about it (months later), the site had doubled in size. At least something did get done, “fix my street” FTW! Nothing more has been dumped there since they fenced it and marked it as an illegal dumping site.

Thats nothing. Ive got photos of a real dump site in Weston creek. Its the kind of place you really don’t want to go at night. The rubbish has got so bad that the car burners have had to use the grassed area. Recently the complete contents of a house have turned up, including school photos.

Are you sure that the “dumping” in the first picture is illegal? Developers now set up central areas for dumping builder’s waste within the development area to save time and haulage costs during construction. Once construction is complete the dump area is cleared. Usually these areas have temporary fencing around them, but that may not always be the case.